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prealignment

prealignment noun: an alignment prior to some other operation.

Noun

prealignment (countable and uncountable, plural prealignments)

  1. An alignment prior to some other operation.
    • Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads.2015 November 17, “miRge - A Multiplexed Method of Processing Small RNA-Seq Data to Determine MicroRNA Entropy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Adjective

prealignment (not comparable)

  1. Prior to an alignment.

Forms of prealignment

pluralprealignments

Origin of prealignment

From pre- + alignment.

Questions about prealignment

What does prealignment mean?
Prealignment means an alignment prior to some other operation.
What part of speech is prealignment?
Prealignment can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of prealignment?
The plural of prealignment is prealignments.

Words near prealignment in the dictionary

  1. prealgebraic
  2. prealgebras
  3. prealign
  4. prealigned
  5. prealigning
  6. prealignment
  7. prealignments
  8. prealigns
  9. prealiquoted
  10. preallable
  11. preallably

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